2025 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 164 - State universities and colleges -- regional education -- archaeology 164.2899 Council on Postsecondary Education to develop and publish annual survey to assess intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity -- Institutions to administer surveys, securely store responses, and submit annual report to council -- Sunset.
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KY Rev Stat § 164.2899 (2025)
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164.2899 Council on Postsecondary Education to develop and publish annual
survey to assess intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity -- Institutions to
administer surveys, securely store responses, and submit annual report to
council -- Sunset.
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No later than October 1, 2025, the council shall develop and publish an annual
survey to assess intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity using statistically
valid survey techniques to evaluate the extent to which the students, faculty, and
staff of an institution:
(a) Are exposed to a variety of ideological and political perspectives, including
competing ideas and perspectives; and
(b) Feel at liberty to express their ideological and political viewpoints and beliefs
on campus and in the classroom.
By November 1 of each year, each institution shall administer the survey produced
under subsection (1) of this section to all students, faculty, and staff of the
institution. The communication distributing the survey shall be clearly identified
and shall not be combined with any other communication.
The institution shall provide students, faculty, and staff at least thirty (30) days
from the date the survey is initially distributed to respond to the survey. The
institution shall provide a reminder to students, faculty, and staff to complete the
survey at least three (3) business days prior to the deadline to submit a response.
The reminder shall be clearly identified and shall not be combined with any other
communication.
Each institution shall collect and store responses to the survey anonymously and
securely.
Each institution shall compile all responses to its survey into an annual report on
intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity to be submitted to the council no later
than January 1 of each year. The council shall publish the annual report submitted
by each institution to a prominent, publicly accessible location on the council's
website no later than January 7 of each year.
This section shall expire on and have no force or effect after June 30, 2031, unless
extended by an act of the General Assembly.
Effective: June 27, 2025
History: Created 2025 Ky. Acts ch. 120, sec. 6, effective June 27, 2025.
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